[PRCo] Re: Photo test

[Dwight Long]

Joshua

Yes, you probably should have let it rest.

With all due respect, what you have written in this email is nonsense.

First, I SPECIFICALLY stated that one cannot see the photo when one reads 
the email.  That is true.  One must click on a link, which may or may not 
open the photo.  That is true, and no attempts to whitewash the issue will 
change that.  Only the owners of Ecartis can change that, and they 
apparently are unwilling to do so.

Your attempt at analogizing my complaint about this situation falls short. 
Of course when situations change, one must change to adapt to the changed 
circumstances.  A better analogy would have been for you to posit a 
situation where track 8, which extends to the headhouse, is normally free at 
the time of the Regionalexpresszug's departure and for an hour before and 
after that time, but DB for its own reasons requires intending pax to walk 
from the headhouse  all the way down track 8 to bay platform 8A to board 
their train--and does this repetitively as a matter of routine. Extra work 
on the part of the user for no really good reason.

I spent a good part of my career fending off the designs of systems analysts 
who wanted to give me what they thought I should have rather than what I 
wanted.  This is just another example of that sort of thing.  It is not user 
friendly.  But, as I have repeatedly said, it is Derrick's list and 
therefore he has every right to employ whatever technology he chooses. 
However, that does not extinguish my right as a user and a sometime 
contributor to the list to point out what I perceive as its deficiencies.

Now, with that, can we move on to more interesting topics?

Dwight

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joshua Dunfield" <joshuad at cs.cmu.edu>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 11:10 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Photo test


>I really should let this rest, because there is no reasoning with you,
> but somehow I still hope you will see the light.
>
> On 19 April 2012 16:48, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:
>> Does it really matter where Ecartis put the removed photo?
>
> Of course.  If it put it in an actual trash can that no one could
> access, that would be a problem.  In fact, it puts it in a place that
> anyone with an Internet connection can access.
>
>> The whole point is that it has been excised gratuitously from the 
>> original email and is not available for viewing when one reads it.
>
> It is entirely available for viewing, by clicking the URL.  You simply
> refuse to click it.  You are like a passenger who goes to Track 8
> because the Regionalexpress to Saarbrücken ordinarily leaves from
> Track 8; when some problem (such as a delayed ICE) requires the
> departure to be shifted to Track 10, you refuse to board the
> train—even though Tracks 8 and 10 share a platform.  Then you complain
> to DB that your train must have derailed into a trash can.
>
> -j.
>
>